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• Fingers pointed towards 3G work for Three network outage

  18-10-2019 16:04
  While the full-extent of the network outage has not been unveiled just yet, some are suggesting maintenance on the firms 3G network is the root cause.
  Three has confirmed it was a change to the network which was being made overnight on Wednesday [October 16] which caused the outage, but it is being elusive with the specifics. Either it doesn’t know, which we doubt, or it doesn’t want to say.
  There does appear to be customers who are struggling to connect to voice, SMS and data servic
  
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• Silvery spiral stairs for East London’s Museum of Childhood

  18-10-2019 13:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The V&A’s Museum of Childhood in East London has secured planning permission for a large revamp of the listed building.
  Earlier this year, the V&A announced the appointment of East London based architecture and design practice AOC to lead the development of  three new permanent galleries, a temporary exhibition space and a complete reimagination of the visitor spaces throughout the museum.
  The plans for these spaces is set to be unveiled in early 2020.
  The most significant cha
  
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• AT&T in talks to appease Elliott: sources

  18-10-2019 13:26
  Reports have emerged to suggest the AT&T management team is attempting to reduce pressure from activist investor Elliott Management.
  According to Reuters, AT&T has engaged the vulture fund to understand how demands can be met without causing too much disruption to the business or undermining the long-term ambitions of the business.
  Elliott Management is pressing AT&T to cut costs, make changes in the management offices and scale back the wider ambitions of the business. One element t
  
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• BT launches biggest TV campaign for two decades

  18-10-2019 12:46
  BT has launched its biggest TV advertising campaign for 20 years’ to reinvigorate the brand and hopefully drive towards the convergence dream.
  The new campaign, running across all available channels, will hopefully build the foundations to reinvigorate an ageing BT brand and push towards creating a new business model, heavily relying on the new ‘Halo’ convergence product.
  More than three and a half years after acquiring the EE business, BT is getting down to the difficult work
  
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• Nokia gets some Telia love with 5G mall win

  18-10-2019 12:24
  Swedish operator group Telia showed it’s not entirely monogamous with Ericsson by picking Nokia to run its new 5G network in the new Mall of Tripla in Helsinki.
  While a single shopping centre might not seem like the biggest deal win, it will serve as a case study into all the capacity goodness promised by 5G. Using both Nokia base stations and small cell gear, shoppers at the mall will presumably be able to download the entire internet in one nanosecond and all the other good things promis
  
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• Ericsson scores 5G RAN and core deal with LG U+

  18-10-2019 11:56
  South Korea’s third MNO will be leaning heavily on Swedish kit vendor for its nascent 5G network, having chosen it for both the RAN and the core.
  The new news seems to concern specifically LG U+’s non-standalone 5G using the 3.5 GHz frequency band, for which Ericsson will supply at least some of the RAN kit. Ericsson is only announcing itself a ‘a’ supplier, rather than ‘the’ supplier, so we can assume there are others. It seems the 5G core gig was already kno
  
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• Looking ahead to Total Telecom Congress 2019

  18-10-2019 02:00
  2019 has been an unbelievably eventful year for the global telecoms industry. With more than 60 mobile network operators around the world kicking off their 5G launch programmes this year, there is a sense that the industry is ushering in a new age of next generation connectivity.
  There has been huge progress on the fixed line side of the industry too, with fibre deployment rates in the UK and Germany in particular accelerating at a rapid pace. The latest figures from Ofcom show that FTTH penetr
  
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• LG U+ teams up with Ericsson as it looks to scale up its 5G network in Korea

  18-10-2019 02:00
  South Korean network operator, LG U+ has named Ericsson as its network partner for its 3.5GHz non standalone network.
  LG U+ was among the first operators in the world to launch 5G…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT unveils 5G Smart Port initiatives in Belfast

  18-10-2019 02:00
  BT is launching a series of 5G industrial 5G use cases at one of the UK's biggest port facilities in an attempt to showcase the benefits of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).BT will team up with AR and VR specialists, Ubimax and VRtuoso to present a series of Smart Port solutions at Belfast Harbour…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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